London gets up early on Monday, shaking off the weekend's inertia.The street visible from my hotel room was getting busier by the minute as it would on any typical Monday morning.u00a0 When I was about to order my third coffee, the cell phone buzzed. Zeyn Mirza, Vijay Mallya's racing manager, was on the line: "Feroz is no more; I heard it on television."

There was a moment of dark numbness before the news stabbed me, and the enormity of the loss sank in.